French authorities are treating an explosion that injured 13 pedestrians in central Lyon on Friday as a terror attack and are hunting the man who planted the parcel bomb, according to the Paris prosecutor.

EU parliamentary elections, a raft of global economic data and results from US retailers in the week ahead should provide investors with an opportunity to assess some of the key themes that have plagued financial markets over recent sessions.

US markets bounced back on Friday as global markets stabilised following supportive comments on trade from Donald Trump. However the modest gains were not enough to prevent the major indices from ending the week in the red amid worsening US-Chinese trade tensions and mounting global growth concerns.

Kenya’s High Court on Friday upheld a 100-year-old set of laws that criminalise gay sex in what equality campaigners described as a major setback in the fight to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world.

Foot Locker maintained its full-year sales guidance but dialled back its earnings growth forecast as it reported a weaker first quarter than Wall Street had expected, dragging shares down more than one-tenth in pre-market trading.

The Bank of England is considering imposing an additional floor on the amount of capital lenders have to hold to extend mortgages in the wake of eroding capital levels and riskier lending practices returning at British banks and building societies.

Britain’s energy watchdog has cut the returns energy networks such as National Grid are allowed to make following fierce criticism of the monopolies that own the pipes and cables that transport gas and electricity around the country.

SpaceX has successfully deployed 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, the first step in the Elon Musk-backed company’s bid to create a space-based internet connectivity service that competes with traditional networks.

Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday, extending a broad and deep sell-off across global stock markets as concern about the potential impact of the deepening trade dispute between the US and China took a tighter grip on sentiment.

Facebook said it took down a record 2.2bn fake accounts in the first three months of this year, only slightly less than the total number of monthly active users on the social media network, in a sign that its battle against bad actors is far from over.